Portable bureau.



0. RANGNOW.

PORTABLE BUREAU.

947, 9 390, APPLIIOAQIOIT TILED APE-15, 1909. Patented Feb. 1,

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Wit sees." Inventor, g Otto Rangnow 0. RANGNOW.

PORTABLE BUREAU.

APPLIGATIONIILED APR.15,1909.

947,939. Patented Feb. 1,1910. Z8 6 2%IEETSSHEET Fllltllil.

OTTO RANGNOW, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

PORTABLE BUREAU.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, O'r'ro RANenow, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Innprovements inPortable Bureaus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in a portable bureau and the objectof my invention is to construct a portable bureau having a front panelor door which may be opened and removed from the body of the bureau.

A further object of my invention is to provide the interior of thebureau with drawers and receptacles which will be accessible and thedrawers removable, when the door is removed.

A still further object of my invention is to provide th door with sideand top edges to strengthen the same and to provide the body of thebureau with cut away portions corresponding; to the edges upon the doorso that the drawers will be more readily accessible.

A still further object of my invention is to make the door of smallerdimensions than the front of the body so that the front of the lowerportion of the body may be made with solid rectangular corners tostrengthen the bureau body.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a panel in thefront of the bureau body below the bottom line of the door so that thelower portion of the bureau may be provided with drawers and a stillfurther object of my invention is to provide means for attaching thedoor to the body so that said door may be readily removed from thelatter.

In the accompanying drawings in which like references refer to likeparts: Figure 1. is a perspective view of my improved portable bureau;Fig. 2. is a plan view of my improved portable bureau; Fig. 3. is an endelevation of Fig. 2; Fig. 4:. is a front elevation of Fig. 2; Fig. 5. isa front elevation of the portable bureau, with the door removed and thefront panel open; Fig. 6. is a transverse section on line 66 Fig. Fig.7. is a sectional perspective view of the door, detached; Fig. 8. is avertical longitudinal section on line 8--8 Fig. 2; and, Fig. 9. is ahorizontal section on line 9-9 Fig. 4:.

In the drawings 1 represents thebody Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 15, 1909.

Patented Feb. 1, 151 10.

Serial No. 489,992.

consisting of the top 2, the ends 3 and a the bottom 5, the back 6 andthe front 7.

The door 10 consists of the front portion 12, the top edge 13 and theend edges 14:

and 15.

The top 2 and the ends 3 and 41- of the body are cut away to provide forthe top 12 and ends 14.- and 15, of the door, so that when the door isin place upon the body. the bureau will be rectangular in form and thedoor when constructed in this way may be provided with the usual cornerirons and will have sutlicient strength to withstand the strain to whichtrunks are usually subjected.

The door 10 is provided upon its edges with valancestrips 17 to coverthe joints between the door and the body. The bottom edge of the frontportion 12 of the door is also provided with a valance-strip 18, to 1protect the joint between the bottom of the door and the front panel 7of the body. The door is provided with fixtures 22, having dowel-pins23, which fit into correspondino,- fixtures 24 secured upon the body.Said fixtures 2 1 have sockets 25 formed therein to receive saiddowel-pins. The door is also provided with one member of a lock 26, andthe other member of said lock is attached to the body. The door is alsoprovided with handles 27 and spring clasps 28.

The front portion 7 of the body, below the bottom line of the door, isrigidly secured at the ends of the body to form solid. rectangularcorners and thereby strengthen the body.

A panel 30 is provided in the front por tion 7 of the body and securedthereto by hinges 31, so that said panel may be opened to have access tothe drawers in the bottom of the bureau. The hinged panel 30 is heldclosed by hooks 32 and the top edge of the panel is secured by thevalance-strip 18, when the door is in place upon the body.

Three drawers are provided which rest upon the bottom 5 of the body. Thecenter drawer 34L is adapted to be withdrawn through the space formedfor the hinged panel 30 and the drawers 35 and 36 are adapted to bedrawn into the space in the center of the body provided for the drawer34, when the latter is removed from the body and the said drawers 35 and36 may be removed from the body through the space formed in the frontportion 7 of the body for the panel 30. The drawers 34, 35 and 36completely fill the space in the bottom portion of the body, so thatsaid drawers cannot move when the panel 30 is closed.

Cross-pieces 38 and 39 are secured in the body and located at eitherside of the center drawer 34, to support the drawer 40, which latter isadapted to slide upon said crosspieces and be withdrawn from the bodwhen the door 10 is removed. The said cross-pieces form means forbracing the front portions 7 of the body and give additional strength tothe latter.

The drawers 41 and 42 are supported upon cleats 43 secured to the ends 3and 4 of the body.

It will be seen that when the door is removed from the body, the drawers40, 41 and 42 are accessible and may be readily removed. By opening thehinged panel 30 the center drawer 84 is accessible and when said drawer34 is removed from the body the drawers 35 and 36 may be drawn into thespace formed for said drawer 34 and then said drawers 35 and 36 may bewithdrawn from the body.

Having thus described my invention I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent:

1. In a portable bureau, the combination of a body, said body having arigid front portion inclosing the lower part of said body and formingrigid rectangular corners, said front lower portion having a panel inthe central portion of the same and a door adapted to inclose the frontof said body and hold said panel in the closed position.

2. In a portable bureau, the combination of a body, said body having afront portion forming rigid rectangular corners upon said body, saidfront port-ion having a space formed in the center of the same,'a panelfitted into said space formed in said front portion, cross-piecessecured in said body to strengthen the said front portion adjacent tothe said space formed in the said front portion for said panel and adoor to inclose said body above the line of said front portion.

3. In a portable bureau, the combination of a body, said body having afront portion forming rigid rectangular lower corners upon said body, apanel formed in the central part of said front portion of said body, adrawer of less width than the space formed in said front portion forsaid panel and adapted to be withdrawn through said space, and a door toinclose the said body above the top line of said front portion.

4. In a portable bureau, the combination of a body, said body having afront portion forming rigid rectangular lower corners upon said body, apanel formed in the central part of said front portion, drawers in saidbody located at either end of the same and adapted to be withdrawnthrough the space formed in said front portion for said panel and a doorto inclose the said body above the line of said front portion.

5. In a portable bureau, the combination of a body, said body having afront portion forming rigid rectangular lower corners upon said body, apanel formed in the central part of said front portion, drawers in saidbody located at either end of the same and adapted to be withdrawnthrough the space formed in said front portion for said panel, a drawerlocated between the said drawers located at the end of said body andadapted to be withdrawn through the space formed in said front portionfor said panel and a door to inclose the said body above the line ofsaid front portion.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OTTO RANGNOIV.

Witnesses M. R. CLEELAND, JOSEPH T. TAYLOR.

